InterPlay Leader in Training
Lorena Gaibor was first introduced to Interplay during the early days of the pandemic in 2020 while being coached by Kaira Jewel Lingo. She was quickly enamored by the potential that the sneaky deep play offered for her healing journey and enrolled in the first BIPOC Life Practice Program. Since then she has continued her learning journey in Interplay most recently having completed the Secrets of Leading program. She is now overjoyed to be collaborating in the newly formed Colorado Regional Group of Interplayers. Together this group is bringing Interplay workshops to the Front Range. Lorena is also a recovering social worker and academic having taught MSW students for 7 years at the University of Denver. Lorena has been a longtime activist and advocate, dedicated to working with marginalized communities centered on topics of social, ecological, racial, and immigrant rights. Lorena is currently on a sabbatical centered on unlearning and re-membering as she sheds a lifetime of harmful dominant social norms internalized as a Latina/woman of color. In her healing journey, alongside Interplay, she also studies and practices Interrelational Focusing and other Somatic therapeutic practices that are helping her to reconnect to her embodied joyful experience. In addition to being a recovering academic, she has also embraced a post-activist inquiry into fugitivity, learning from visionary teachers such as Bayo Akomolafe and by participating in sensemaking processes with other alternative educators in a global alliance called Ecoversities. She’s also finishing up a two year Mindfulness Meditation Teacher’s Certification Program run by Tara Brach and Jack Kornfeld. She has begun to bring all that she has been unlearning and re-membering from this sabbatical period into her new role as a facilitator and witnesser of people’s healing/ re-membering processes.